“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”

“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”

“That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”

“I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.”

“I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..”

“I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.”

“For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.”